Erosion/Transportation and Deposition

What is erosion?

• The BREAKING DOWN of sediment

• The MOVEMENT of sediment.

• The SETTLEMENT of sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Water mixed with carbon forming carbonic acid that eats away at marble and limestone. Hint Acid Rain

• Mechanical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

• Weathering

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which of these is an example of erosion?

• Light shinning onto a mountain

• Rain breaking down rock

• Wind blowing away sediment

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following are agents of erosion?

• Wind

• Water

• Ice

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Erosion and Transportation are the same thing

• True

• False

A delta at the mouth of a river is the direct result of

• runoff from sewage

• deposition of sediment

• an underground river flowing to the ocean

• an ancient glacier that passed through

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which characteristic would most likely decrease along the reference line from A to B? (Traveling away from the mouth of the river)

• the density of the water

• the size of the sediments

• the depth of the water

• the amount of salt in solution

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which rock type forms after sediment have being deposited?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Weathering Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Sand settles on the beach after waves dropped it there. This is an example of..

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

Erosion is

• HOW sediment/particles are being moved

• the GENERAL movement of sediment

• breaking down of sediment

• chemical breaking down sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2